Os determinantes socioeconômicos do suicídio nos municípios do Brasil

Abstract

The main objective of this monograph is to study suicide as a public health problem, seeking to understand the influence of socioeconomic variables on its growth in the country. Therefore, we sought to identify the determinants of suicides in Brazilian municipalities, through data collected by the IPEADATA and PNUD platforms. In order to meet the proposed objective, descriptive statistics were performed and two econometric methods of counting data were applied: Quantile Regression for Counting Data and Negative Binomial Regression. It was identified that the tendency to commit suicide is greater among men and among people aged over 60 years, it was found that women had an average rate of selfinflicted deaths of 1.40%, being the lowest in the whole country and no relationship was identified between most of the social determinants as a suicide motivator for this population group. The results found showed that the variables that are positively related to the occurrences of suicide are: the percentage of urban population, total population, percentage of poor people, per capita income and women that are chiefs of families without completing elementary school and with children under 15 years of age, had a strong relationship with the number of total suicides, and the latter with female suicide.